Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks
Will the practice of collecting wild honey wearing no clothes become a widespread practice in Zimbabwe? Or will beekeeping take over as the main way that people acquire honey? Both practices impact on forest resources; how can the foresters influence the uptake of these ideas?. This paper describes...
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| author | Haggith, M. Prabhu, Ravi Colfer, C.J.P. Ritchie, B. Thomson, A. Mudavanhu, H. |
| author_browse | Colfer, C.J.P. Haggith, M. Mudavanhu, H. Prabhu, Ravi Ritchie, B. Thomson, A. |
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| description | Will the practice of collecting wild honey wearing no clothes become a widespread practice in Zimbabwe? Or will beekeeping take over as the main way that people acquire honey? Both practices impact on forest resources; how can the foresters influence the uptake of these ideas?. This paper describes an exploratory modelling study investigating how social network patterns affect the way ideas spread around communities. It concludes that increasing the density of social networks increases the spread of successful ideas whilst speeding the loss of ideas with no competitive advantage. Some different kinds of competitive advantage are explored in the context of forest management and rural extension. |
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| spelling | CGSpace187372025-01-24T14:20:40Z Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks Haggith, M. Prabhu, Ravi Colfer, C.J.P. Ritchie, B. Thomson, A. Mudavanhu, H. social interaction networking models forest management extension Will the practice of collecting wild honey wearing no clothes become a widespread practice in Zimbabwe? Or will beekeeping take over as the main way that people acquire honey? Both practices impact on forest resources; how can the foresters influence the uptake of these ideas?. This paper describes an exploratory modelling study investigating how social network patterns affect the way ideas spread around communities. It concludes that increasing the density of social networks increases the spread of successful ideas whilst speeding the loss of ideas with no competitive advantage. Some different kinds of competitive advantage are explored in the context of forest management and rural extension. 2003 2012-06-04T09:08:45Z 2012-06-04T09:08:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18737 en Haggith, M., Prabhu, R., Colfer, C.J.P., Ritchie, B., Thomson, A., Mudavanhu, H. 2003. Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks . Small-scale Forest Economics, Management and Policy 2 (2 (special issue)) :225-239. |
| spellingShingle | social interaction networking models forest management extension Haggith, M. Prabhu, Ravi Colfer, C.J.P. Ritchie, B. Thomson, A. Mudavanhu, H. Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title | Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title_full | Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title_fullStr | Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title_short | Infectious ideas: modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| title_sort | infectious ideas modelling the diffusion of ideas across social networks |
| topic | social interaction networking models forest management extension |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18737 |
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